EDP Consultants Australia
Senior EHS Consultant
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The Vacancy
EDP is seeking an experienced Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Consultant to join our Project Services Team, delivering high-quality health, safety and environmental consultancy services to a diverse portfolio of clients across the UK and beyond.
Reporting to the Business Director, this home-based role involves regular travel and overnight stays. You will support clients across a wide range of sectors, working on both long-term programmes (12+ months) and shorter, targeted consultancy assignments.
The Role
You will work closely with client organisations at all levels from operational teams through to senior leadership and board level, providing pragmatic, high-impact EHS solutions. Engagements will range from single-site organisations to complex, multi-national businesses.
As a key member of project teams, you will be expected to consistently deliver work to a high professional standard, contribute effectively to collaborative projects, and take ownership of your own outputs. You will also play an active role in enhancing EDP’s internal systems, processes and service delivery approach, ensuring projects are efficiently managed from inception through to completion.
Key Accountabilities
- Deliver consultancy projects effectively and through to successful completion
- Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of EDP’s products, systems and delivery processes
- Build, maintain and strengthen long-term client relationships
- Work collaboratively with clients to understand their EHS objectives and tailor solutions accordingly
- Support business development activity through input into proposals, presentations and client meetings
- Clearly articulate EDP’s value proposition to existing and prospective clients
Role Requirements
- Minimum 4 years’ experience within the EHS sector, consistently delivering against client expectations
- Strong ability to communicate, influence and present credibly at all organisational levels, including executive leadership
- Demonstrable success in driving improved EHS performance within client organisations
- Proven people management and stakeholder engagement skills
- Excellent project management capability
- Experience developing client-focused, practical and differentiated solutions
- Strong listening, negotiation and presentation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Full UK driving licence
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Experience & Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have:
- 4+ years’ experience working within an EHS consultancy or professional services environment
- Graduate IOSH membership or MIIRSM with up-to-date CPD
- Practitioner-level IEMA membership
- EHS auditing qualifications (Lead Auditor status desirable)
- Demonstrable experience implementing and supporting ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 across multi-site organisations
- Experience delivering risk assessments and compliance audits within multi-site environments
- Experience delivering fire risk assessments across multi-site portfolios
- Strong project management skills, particularly in identifying client needs and translating them into effective delivery plans
- Experience working in multi-stakeholder environments with competing priorities
- Exposure to commercially driven environments with performance and revenue targets
- Ability to clearly and concisely explain regulatory and best-practice requirements to audiences at all levels
Details and benefits:
- The role is home / flexible based working
- The role is available as a full-time role only
- Regular UK and Ireland travel is required
- Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience
- Travel and expenses costs
- Pension contribution
- Death in service benefit
- A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays and private health care
- Regular training and career development
- Access to mental health support and professional financial advice.
About Us
EDP is a leading health, safety, and environmental consultancy founded over 25 years ago with offices throughout the UK, Ireland, Singapore and Australia. Established in Australia in 2018, the company has grown organically and delivers environmental, contaminated land and occupational hygiene services.
We are seeking brilliant individuals to join our team. Joining our company means more than a traditional 9–5. EDP provides a collaborative, inclusive and flexible work environment, focussing on keeping your personal life in balance. EDP provides a nurturing and dynamic work environment led by engaged senior managers who are invested in your success and will facilitate your career aspirations. We want you to grow with our business.
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EDP is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business providing dynamic multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.
At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.
Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.
We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.
If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?
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